Convenience Invasion

As I was flipping the pages of my first installment of my Bon Appetit subscription, I saw an advertisement. The advertisement was for flavored mayo. Staring at it, I became perplexed. Do people really need to buy flavored mayo? I don't mean to offend if there are some of you out there that like the concept or even like eating it. Have we as a consumer been lulled to sleep by the big food corporations so much that we can't make our own flavored mayo? I guess after thinking of all the "convenience" items we have why haven't they made flavored mayo sooner? We already have flavored water, infused garlic/herb olive oil, mixed fruit cups, bisquick, pre-cut apple slices, L'eggo my Eggos, presliced pepperoni, canned soups, sloppy joe mix, sliced cheese, Rica-A-Roni (and why is it a San Francisco treat?), salsas, innumerable spaghetti sauces....the list could go on and on. After eating so many pre-made things its like we've become zomboid beings who are being cattle driven into one basic common flavor denominator. Leaving behind our taste bud freedom, we won't realize what food should really taste like. Is it so hard to add some Italian dressing or some fresh basil or chopped dill to your own mayo? Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of convenience items. But it seems we're heading down a path that will make us dependent upon the food corporations to feed us and we could lose what its like to eat "real" foods...foods without a ton of sugar, salt, whey protien or modified cornstarch.

When in the course of each meal, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the commercially processed food bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of cooking and eating entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of each taste bud requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to cook and eat for themselves. --I'll give two points to anyone who can tell me where I modified this statement from!